skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we salvage this by forbidding * on optional with compiler warnings (as errors)?
> Web apps are better than native apps from a security perspective.

This isn't true. Sure, they have less access to the host system, but verifying the integrity and authenticity of a web app is harder than that of a native app, where code signing is commonplace (not that code signing is a whole solution, but it's a great start). Extensions[0] exist to improve the situation but it's not yet broadly applicable.

A compromised web app doesn't have to upload your data to a 3rd party, it just has to (for example) encrypt with weak keys. You'd never notice that from the network logs alone.

And while I agree that debug tooling for the web is great, there's a lot of great stuff for native code too. Ignoring "expert" tools entirely, a more user-facing example is Little Snitch[1], which handles the "detect data being sent to 3rd parties" use case.

[0] https://engineering.fb.com/2022/03/10/security/code-verify/

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
You might now want to, but the opinion is correct.
I wonder if some of these whacky military things are actually honeypots for espionage. That's been my assumption for the Navy work on Polywell.
I'd dispute that with Masayoshi Son. I mean all venture investing has an element of gambling to it but he's more an investor.
yeah, you get to choose the cutlery when all you really want is to eat.
you can vote the option now.
Every choice you make reshapes how questions show up and get noticed — and every choice matters.
I’m very happy to hear this.

Too many good games have had their player bases gimped by the rise of stupid “one hit wonder” games like palworld or helldivers 2.

The Finals is somehow struggling to maintain a decent player base despite being objectively one of the freshest and best game releases in a decade. I can’t get my friends to play it because they’re too busy memeing about space bugs on a mediocre shooter.

Glad to see that these games time and time again shoot themselves in the foot. Good riddance!
I doubt there is much difference to this tracking vs credit and debit cards. Really unless you are paying with case I think your transaction history is being sold.
Reminds me of a stand up comedian who said about AI: “People are afraid that AI will take their jobs. But if it’s really that intelligent, it’s gonna let _us_ do the work”.
You are making it sound like it was a compilation process optimization, but it is just CI thing.
Because it is a convenient universally understood symbol. Why does the letter W have the shape it has? I don’t care, but I know what it stands for as do all other people who speak English.
You can still get codes for digital Xbox games at retail. Digital games are available at places like Amazon too.
multi user support has other purposes. it means you can turn the OS into a server OS which can be shared across numerous accounts. lacking that capability means you dissociate a desktop OS from a server OS for no good reason.
This^ There are so many third party resellers that probably most are unauthorized.
> No manager dares to refuse these initiatives because they'll be instantly named by the activist, with the help of journalist friends, and ensure they lose their job.

Doesn't this feel very authoritarian ? Just replace manager with citizen and you have USSR.
Development-wise they're completely different. Extensions are much easier / more isolated.
Developing a pg extension is all about compiling some C code into a .so object and dynamically using a templated Makefile to load it into the running Postgres process.

If you want some boilerplate to get you started I've been using this cookie-cutter template to bootstrap lots of extensions https://github.com/Florents-Tselai/cookiecutter-postgres-ext...

Demo walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVxY3ZmE5bU

Contributing to core Postgres, it's an entirely different story.
Its only equivalent for a very narrow sense of 'prediction' , namely modelling conditional probability distributions over known data.

There's no sense, for example, in which deriving a prediction about the nature of reality from a novel scientific theory is 'compression'

eg., suppose we didn't know a planet existed, and we looked at orbital data. There's no sense in which compressing that data would indicate another planet existed.

It's a great source of confusion that people think AI/ML systems are 'predicting' novel distributions of observations (science), vs., novel observations of the same distribution (statistics).

It should be more obvious that the latter is just compression, since it's just taking a known distribution of data and replacing it with a derivative optimal value.

Science predicts novel distributions based on theories, ie., it says the world is other than we previously supposed.
I assume this is a joke pointing to Google's chat app situation, but regardless here is my serious answer:

I don't think the executives need to do anything themselves at a company like Google -- whether it is their (managed) phone or laptop, likely the IT would install and set up these things and everything would be ready to use. If not they have assistants who can do the chores.
Syntax, Schmyntax... I learned too many languages over the years and can't remember every syntax from the top of my head, but does it really matter?
There is the largely feature compatible muon¹ re-implementation that doesn't require Python, it is packaged in a few distributions too. As in all things of this nature there are some caveats².

It is actually pretty useful to have installed alongside meson, even if just for access to the manpages as documentation.

¹ https://git.sr.ht/~lattis/muon

² https://muon.build/releases/edge/docs/status.html
As an Australian - fuck me sideways, that was a shitshow on every possible level (and it's barely begun)
I think this should be the main response. If the fees were charged to the customer they would be able to make an informed choice. But as it is the fees are already included in the price, so you are just losing if you don't use the credit card and get rewards.

But it also isn't easy to charge the customer for the fee because it is different for different cards. I don't even know if there is a reliable way for the average business to know the fee, the card company just tells them at the end of the month.
It’s still playable but overrun with the worst kind of paradox dlc. Arrowhead are great devs but their biz side comes off as explorative. I was happy to see HD2 actually does a good job at post game monitization because they did such a sloppy job with mahicka
> but I expect just as many did it to "civilize and raise up the barbarians as good christians".

Do you have any examples for this ?
I often see the "complaint" (hard to find the right word here - it's discussed in somewhat coded/conspiratorial language for fear of sounding racist I'm sure) that when Indians are hired into a company, they'll then begin hiring more and more Indians. As you say, this is actually a rather natural human tendency and I doubt it's limited to Indians. Of course, many people here will also note that they get most of their jobs through their network (side note; it must be nice speaking as an introvert who just has to apply to jobs like a regular schlub). Well, if you're Indian, especially from India, I bet your network is going to be fairly Indian.
https://isocpp.org/blog/2024/04/results-summary-2024-annual-...

Search for CMake there.
Fine, there I'll reach for AtomVM.

https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM
> But if you are only getting Americans with no college education or 60k in debt with soft/useless degrees

Norway still needs people to collect the garbage, sweep the streets, drive cabs etc. Why do you dismiss low-skilled labour so easily?
"Is it worth it?" is a meaningless question without context. Worth it for what? What are your goals?
Was it that NYT articles are routinely pirated on reddit comments and the like?
GPT-4 is not a single model. The GPT-4 that was released initially a year ago is way worse in benchmarks than the newest versions of it and the original version has been beat by quite a lot of other models by this point.

The newest version of GPT-4 is probably still overall the best model currently, but it is only a few months old, and the picture depends a lot on what benchmarks you are looking at.

E.g. for what we are doing at our company (document processing, etc.) Claude-3 Opus and Gemini-1.5 Pro are currently the better models. The newest GPT-4 even performed worse than a previous version.

So to me it def. seems like the gap is getting smaller. Of course, OpenAI could be coming out with GPT-5 next week and it could be vastly better than all other current models.
it does not make much sense as you typically protect important online activity with 2FA
More like a cult farmhouse, you're free to leave but won't.
What HF means in this context? A few GHz? Also, for long range I thought the longer the wave length is, the better.
There are very good reasons for closed source projects in fact not to use public repositories but the very least org-internal forks/mirrors. In that case dependency management referring fixed public repositories is no-go. If there are better solutions than submodules for these I would love to know. Fetch-content might do the trick? (Specifically, a complex project composed only of private git repositories).
Can this be used to save on token cost in LLM inferencing?
> chipping away at

I've come to see that as a continuation of war by other means, to coin a phrase. Large empire A chips away at the unity of large empire B, by encouraging its fragmentation (i.e. supporting any B fishes that want to be the largest in a smaller pond.)

E.g. the russians complain of this: https://en.topwar.ru/235582-russkie-sami-budut-rvat-sebja-sv...

One of these days I ought to read Chesterton's take, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Napoleon_of_Notting_Hill
Less and less thank goodness. And there's always SciHub and others.
> But the tone of the rest of the article smells of a certain kind of conservative smugness that it is your individual responsibility for improving your own situation. This is absolutely correct but he discredits “community leaders” and students who “had little in common with others other than how they looked” and specifically calls out defunding the police.

Most liberals discount conservative beliefs because of how they "smell," and vice-versa. That's toxic and discriminatory. It's helpful to look at arguments on a case-by-case basis, than rather with which cultural pattern it lines up. Listen to what the dude is saying, rather than whether he identifies with blue team or red team.

FWIW, in this case, I think both sides are right:

1) If people don't believe it's their own individual responsibility to improve their situation, they will never do so. One of the best ways to keep people oppressed is to give a sense of inevitability and hopelessness, exactly as the liberals do here.

2) The system is racist (in ways and degrees most conservatives, and indeed, even few liberals, will acknowledge), and we ought to fix that. That involves organizing and discussion.

I'll give an example of a problem is those discussion, in my (liberal) school start in kindergarten, well before kids can organize, but well after they can feel hopeless and victimized. We have resources like these being used there:

https://www.wokekindergarten.org/

By the time they're done with it, you see kids splitting up into privileged and disadvantaged groups, exactly as you see in the Robbers Cave Experiment. It was fascinating to watch, as my child had friends all over the spectrum:

* Going in, my child didn't remember the skin color of other kids.

* Coming out, he had a clear racial construct, but kids who were Indian, Chinese, etc. were lumped together as "white."

The issues with liberals aren't specific to 18-22 year old students, as it's happening with perfectly adult teachers and administrators. And yes, there is a complete disconnect between wealthy liberals trying to virtue-signal, and the communities they pretend to want to help.
Nintendo Switch doesn't even have an easily accessible Internet browser.

In fact, I was not even sure it had one. I had to look it up and found this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/how-to-use-hidden-ninte...

It would be difficult to make a case that the average user would see this as a general purpose computer.
That's an ongoing discussion in the Postgres community [0], primarily because Postgres is 100% written in C.

As for the future, I don't know. Not many companies can maintain full forks. I've noticed, however, from my professional experience that businesses are willing to hire freelancers to code specific things. (e.g., I've had a few Postgres gigs to write custom Postgres extensions. 50% C and 50% SQL/PgSQL).
But yeah, I guess lots of C projects will become like COBOL ones.

0: https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/10/10/postgres-the-next-g...
Looks pretty neat. Probably a lot easier to use than Bazel, unless you need to compile C++ and Java or TypeScript, e.g. for building Android or web apps with a native dependency all from source.
The laminate layer likely reacts somewhat to strong acids in food and drink.
You can put the origin anywhere and for almost all choices the adjustment is almost zero. But if the choice happens to be very close to the sample point, against all (prior) probabilities, then that fact affects the prior.
In 2 sentences this comment encapsulates everything wrong with C++ culture that has caused so many terrible errors becoming standardized forever over the years.

Sometimes being nice really pays off.
No, actually the key technology (for DT fusion) is the blanket and first wall (and possibly limiter/diverter). The problem is maximizing power/area, since if this is too low the reactor is too large and cannot be economical.

The most plausible IMO DT fusion scheme is Zap's, since it allows thick liquid lithium to cover much of the exposed inner surfaces. Zap's scheme doesn't even use magnets, never mind high temperature superconducting ones.
I recall thinking it was a compass before. They should've chosen a more complicated Chinese character if that is what they wanted to portray.
It does not work for me.
That is a very, very good way of stating way of stating a fact that I 100% agree with.

Although my favorite would probably be In The Mouth of Madness, because I saw that at a better point in my life.
I wanted this for a while so I could do a 'box-breathing' thing. With the inhale-hold-exhale-hold stages all being customizable to fit your body and go for the effect you wanted.

Could not figure out a way to do it (sans JS or insane complexity) without something like what's on this page. Holy stylesheets! This page has really creative demos!!! Haha :)
We are in the wood age again with cellulose / rayon.
Since all of this is happening, properly, in the unstable and testing repos, stable is not affected.

For some reason, a lot of people ignore the warnings

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable

about unstable and testing and are complaining that Debian is broken.
Nice meta analysis examining the situation from the perspective management versus measurement: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4801131_Measurement...
I use Telegram for that. Also good for taking notes or reminders for yourself without having to use a separate app.
I said it reminds me personally.
The Arrival[0] (not Arrival) was like that.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/
What are the benefits over Salad or Vast.ai?

If I pause a GPU instance will I be able to resume it on the same host so I can use the data generated before?
Don’t threaten me with a good time :P
The lack of support for optional<T&> is not an issue at all in my opinion. The actual issue is that std::optional is not a monadic type in the vein of Rust's Option or Haskell's Maybe. So really, what does it buy you over std::pair<T, bool>? Except being unsafe by default since it allows you to access an unconstructed T. Basic monadic operations don't arrive for std::optional until C++23, which is an unforced error. They should have been there from the beginning.
If only the US had some sort of anti-trust laws, then perhaps we wouldn't need to rely on the EU to regulate US companies. To be clear, that is snark because that's how I communicate, however I suppose it could be argued that the laws we have have effectively been neutered through selection of right-wing justices over the last half century or so, and so we are indeed helpless against the ever consolidating megacorps.
Entertaining space where Martin Shkreli grills him about the study he was purportedly involved with:

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1zqKVqakXkPxB
One big problem with FM is that it is selective. If you have two different signals of similar strength on the same frequency you won't get good reception from either. With AM you'd hear both. If one signal is slightly stronger on FM that's the one you'll hear, with AM you'd hear both. For music this is an obvious choice, better to pick a signal than have them interfere, but for emergency communication the opposite is true. It is easy enough for a human to hear two conversations and pick the one you want to listen to by focusing on it - we do this in crowded rooms all the time.
In 600 BCE some population had the highest living standards in the world. Was that the peak of human flourishing that we ever should have aspired to?
Roddy Piper has passed. Apparently, many professional wrestlers die early.
China Is Buying Gold Like There's No Tomorrow
https://archive.is/hvKoa
It turns out universal basic literacy (reading and math) and universal basic effort (2 hours of walking or equivalent anctivity) are even more important.
I think you need to be very clear about what your goal is -- just playing with different "real" hardware, or running some small models as experiments, or trying to do semi-serious work with LLMs? How much do you want to spend on hardware and electricity in the long run, and how much are you willing to "lose"? e.g. if a setup turns out to be not very useful and hard to repurpose it because you already have too many computers, and you need to either sell it or throw it away, what's your limit?

Depending on your answer, I suspect you might want to use Google Colab Pro/Paperspace/AWS/vast.ai instead of building your own hardware.
The blog post discussed on HN:

2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17659672 (14 comments)

2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29117783 (1 comment)
Are you serious :D? The arbitrary syntax toenail clippings that is C++ should be handled by IDE & compiler, linters and static type checker. C++ syntax is not music or maths, it’s just more or less arbitrary gobbledygook. (I write C++ as my main job). If you can intuitively parse all that then all the power to you but it absolutely is not requirement to do proper software engineering in C++ or have opinions on the language :).
I've got another one on the topic of self-hosted file sharing:

- FileBrowser (https://filebrowser.org/features)

- Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/)

Run both as Docker containers on a server at home. Syncthing keeps the files on your PC, Mac, and BSD systems in sync, and FileBrowser can point to the sync share and supply a convenient web UI for phones, etc. It works for me, it's kind of like a local Dropbox.
I think a big part of the "value" Australia provides is a physical presence close to the Pacific and East Asia, where NATO isn't really a factor.

Obviously NATO is larger militarily but the US will want to protect both flanks (or project power across both the Atlantic and the Pacific).
IANAL, but couldn't non enforcement create an implied-in-fact contract?
Sadly the article doesn't go into details of the user setup. Another missed opportunity to write something more meaningful. Instead they post an arbitrary test done by themselves.
They should ignore anyone telling them to ignore Mac advice. First of all, there's plenty of refurbished M2 Max 96GB+ Studio's out there going for $3000, I have just got one, although I also had to pay a slight premium because Europe. Now, anybody who's suggesting 2x3090 is either bad at maths, or have not been paying attention. That only gets you 48GB which is barely enough to run 70b models in 4-bit, let alone 8-bit which is what you want to be doing ideally. K/V cache is not free, and should you off-load a bunch of stuff to RAM, it would effectively kill 3090 bandwidth. Mind you, to remain future-proof you would be looking at 3x3090 over a KWh in power (electricity isn't free) also good luck finding a motherboard that would sincerely support 48 lanes, and a CPU that would be able to saturate that. At the end of the day, you would be looking at a 5-6k build to start with.

Like it or not, 96/128/192GB macs are the most affordable in VRAM/dollar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frequency
Does the account cost money also?
Is that due to the prevalence of steroid usage? Do we know?
> everything "does more"

Windows 2000 GUI was much more complex than the Windows 10 or 11 GUI. Yet Windows 10 and 11 have difficulties painting the screen (glitches, black screens for a second, and so on).
HF is 3 MHz to 30 MHz. Yes it does not make much sense, the term is ancient.
The largest diaspora in the world (India’s) has 30 million people, and most of them (18M) are immigrants. I have trouble believing more than 1% of people worldwide would prefer something other than one of the national languages of the country in which they were raised.

But my point is more like, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Your frustration with the Russian flag is justified, but so is the frustration of everyone else having to read through dozens of entries, possibly in a foreign language.
You can make that suggestion at https://github.com/co-cddo/open-standards

That's the UK Government's discussion space for adopting open standards.

(I used to work there.)
A Visual History of Windows Icons: From Windows 1 to 11 (2021)
Most of the companies I have run across have some type of ephemeral chat history policy to limit potential legal peril. I always found that to be shady.
Can you expand on spot leasing and job prioritization? What kind of api would you prefer? How would you like to adjust time slices?
Thank you for introducing me to this! Life transferring files and holding presentations will be a lot easier from now on
> sees magnetic field

Which color it is ? /s
My guess: probably about what it cost to distribute Covid tests, but how much that was I don’t know.
It sounds like it's still on open question as to whether or not this is possible.

This story was the one that came to mind when I say your comment and the post makes for a quick, interesting read.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lucille-ball-fillings-spie...
Noted @amadeuspagel, we can implement a feature so that clicking empty space in any section creates the task in that section. This should make mouse operations also faster. Thanks, Do you have any other feedback as well?
Another question is, why do you have such a problem with people promoting themselves? On the Internet, no one knows who your sockpuppet is. So if you come across a post that says look at this cool thing I found on the Internet, and you feel one way about it, vs someone says look at this cool thing I made, vs I'm cool, look at this thing I made, and then you feel a third way about the exact same thing.

Human psychology is fascinating.
A bug that spoke Russian and crashed my app
A capitalist success ($4m bugdet, $13.4m return).
I think the problem would be really fucking rich Americans moving or buying second homes in Norway and causing property values to 5x.

Immigration in general isn’t a moral good or moral bad. It’s just public policy. At least in my view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jxm6JQDN98
INT8, not FP8
But there are jobs there now. So uplifting labor movements now will have an impact.

If we do this across the board, shitty companies will eventually run out of humans to exploit.
Degrees of kevin bacon gene regulates a social network behaviour in fruit flies